That is why the government has started a multi- crore project called the Ganga Action Plan (GAP).ĭuring the early Vedic Age, the Indus and the Sarasvati River were the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent, not the Ganges. These diseases cause about a third of the deaths in India every year. This is a major cause of water pollution. The presence of coliform bacteria in the waters has increased well above normal. This causes a lot of sicknesses like cholera, hepatitis, typhoid, and amoebic dysentery. There is a lot of pollution in the Ganges because many locals tend to release their waste into it. The river breaks up into multiples branches at its delta.
Near the border with Bangladesh the Farakka Barrage controls the flow of the Ganges by diverting some of the water into a feeder canal which has link with the Hooghly river to keep it relatively silt-free. The main stream Ganges enters Bangladesh. Bhāgirathi-Hooghly in the later course forms the Hooghly River. At Allahabad, the river joins with Yamuna river.Īt Pakur, the river divides itself into two distributaries, viz.- the Bhāgirathi-Hooghly and the main stream. Then it passes through the towns of Kanpur, Soron, Kannauj, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Ghazipur, Bhagalpur, Mirzapur, Ballia, Buxar, Saidpur, and Chunar. The river touches plain land in the Rishikesh region near Haridwar in Uttarakhand. The Ganges flows only 200 km through the Himalayas.
The major rivers which flow into the Ganges are Brahmaputra River, Gomti, Kosi river, Gandak, Ghaghra river, Yamuna river and Son river. Overall it flows 3,877 km making it one of the longest rivers in the world. The Ganges flows through north India, and ends at the Bay of Bengal in eastern India. The river starts from a glacier called Gangotri Glacier, which is in the Garhwal region in Himalayas. The average depth of the river is 52 feet (17 m), and the maximum depth, 100 feet (33 m). The Ganges Basin drains 1,000,000-square-kilometre (390,000 sq mi) and supports one of the world's highest densities of humans. The river has many industrial towns like Patliputra, Kannauj, Kanpur, Kara, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Ghazipur, Bhagalpur,Munger, Murshidabad,Baharampur and Kolkata on its banks. The government declared that the Ganges river between Allahabad and Haldia is National-Waterway No.1.
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